Men May Always Remain Dogs; What About Women?

When I was a kid (around 8 years old), in spite of all the warnings from all the well-wishers, I approached the hottest babe in the school and passed of a chit claiming, “I love you”. Well, she yet again coolly passed off the chit to the lady teacher. Ramifications: Century for the girl and the caning for me. Yes, I was her 100th victim. I am sure that the lady teacher had never been said, “I love you”. At that time, I just wanted to grow up fast. After growing up, of course, I have become wiser and know it’s making of love that matters; the rest can wait. But, once again, no way do I dare go and say a hot girl, “I wanna make love with you”. Now, the ramifications can be even stronger. I am sure the lady teachers who have not been made love ever are still around. BTW, “sexual harassment” includes making sexual advances.

I have a conspiracy theory: it’s only those girls who want to gain popularity make sexual harassment complaints with respect to sexual advances; the others either enjoy or suffer without complaining. So, what a girl requires is not a “lady teacher”, but the power to say “NO”. Once so said, she should be empowered enough to take on the beasts, and the law can be of help in this. What they also require is the power to make sexual advances themselves without being termed loose-character. That would be real empowerment! I wonder what sexual harassment can we talk of when a girl can be paraded naked in public under a panchayat dictate on having being termed loose-character. A girl is a bitch not because she sleeps with multiple partners but because she waits for the dogs (men) to fight and settle between themselves with whom she will sleep. But, looking at the present state of the society, I wonder whether we can find our roots to monkeys or dogs.

So, here comes the bigger question: Are women laws helping women in any manner? The answer is a big no. The underlying idea in all women laws is that a woman is an object used by men, and she needs to be compensated for legitimate uses and protected from illegitimate uses. The existing legitimate uses include marriage and prostitution: There are villages in India where the girls are nurtured with the only objective of making them prostitutes, so they are administered growth injections, the ones administered to the animals. A girlfriend is illegitimate because first she is never compensated for sex, and second she also starts enjoying sex in the relationship, which is just not done, and therefore all girls hostels are infiltrated with hidden cameras, which work as soon as they notice a girl making love with a guy. So, that’s what society wants, and that’s what women laws help society achieve by giving alimony to women, by allowing only the husband to decide with whom his wife will sleep vide section 497 IPC, by making sexual assault a cognizable offense under section 354 IPC, by allowing for settlement (including financial settlement) between the complainant and the respondent under the Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill, and by considering the sole testimony of the complainant as sufficient evidence under all women laws irrespective of the occasion.

The message is clear: Society want women to remain bitches and men to remain dogs. Men may always remain dogs, but…what about women?

©2011 Ankur Mutreja

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Ankur Mutreja
Ankur Mutreja is an advocate-cum-writer, and his blogs are amongst his modes of expression. He has also authored number of books, which can be downloaded from the links on the top menu.

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